Archive for April 30th, 2004

Sponsored Masturbation

Friday, April 30th, 2004

[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

Feel like taking part in a sponsored masturbatathon? The internet remains a strange and wonderful place, as this form [PDF] indicates. Go take a look….

All Questions Answered

Friday, April 30th, 2004

[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

Have you seen AQA (All Questions Answered), a new online/SMS service? The idea is that you text message a question to 63336 (only on O2, Vodafone, and Orange, right now: costs £1) and their server uses a clever combination of intelligent algorithms, data mining, and human researchers to provide you…

Long Deadline

Friday, April 30th, 2004

[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

[chez geek card]

The problem with long deadlines is they creep up ever so quickly.

This weekend, I’ll be learning JBoss, Ant, and JUnit, and then writing an an online bank program. Eep….

Just Plain Wierd; And Other Observations About The World

Friday, April 30th, 2004

[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

This is just plain wierd. How to perform a fecalectomy on a keyring.

I’ve got some damn cool new board games, including the second best one in the world, and another one in the top 100, according to the voters on BoardGameGeek. Paul, Claire and I played Hacker from Steve Jackson Games (the people…